Thomas Hart Benton
*These three in the evening, harmonica and fiddle and guitar *, on page 401 in the book, The Grapes of Wrath by John Seinbeck (New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940), vol. 2
Color lithograph reproduction
1940
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Experimental Art Foundation, Lion Arts Centre: The Cloak Room: Anton Hart and George Popperwell
The Experimental Art Foundation curates its exhibition program to represent
new work that expands current debates and ideas in contemporary art and
culture. The EAF incorporates a gallery space, bookshop and artists studios.
The Experiment...
bitforms gallery: BRAINGIRL + E + PUSSY WEEVIL: Work by Claudia Hart, Larry Bercow / Marina Zurkow, Julian Bleecker
Marina Zurkow presents "Braingirl" created in Flash animation, which is usually experienced online. The
animated character and story "Braingirl" is a hybrid of the adolescent girl's exaggerated sense of self and the
artist's viewpoint of teens' ...
Walker Art Gallery: George Romney 1734-1802: British art's forgotten genius
At the height of his career he was more fashionable than Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough as a society portraitist, but all his life he wanted to paint elevated historical and literary subjects. He lacked the confidence to carry out ma...
Oakland Museum of California: Portrait of an Estuary: San Francisco Bay
This bit of historical trivia hints at the significance of the bay to the surrounding communities. The importance is highlighted in Portrait of an Estuary: San Francisco Bay, an exhibition of thirty color photographs on view from January 14 throug...
Canberra Contemporary Art Space: Call to Artists: Inaugural Contemporary Art Award
The award will be judged by Ms Deborah Hart, Senior Curator, Australian Painting and Sculpture, NGA; Mr Pepe Ianniello, Proprietor, The Art Store; and Ms Lisa Byrne, Director, CCAS.
The exhibition and award opens 6pm Thursday 23 October 2003...
Camera Club of New York: Call for Artists: 2003 Small Print Photography
Fee is $25.00 for
first 5 slides, $7.50 for each additional slide.
Deadline for receipt of slides is January 15, 2003.
Chosen artists will participate in a group exhibition
at the Camera Club of New York's Lowenhertz Gallery.
Send self add...
Camera Club of New York: Call for Artists: 2003 Small Print Photography Competition
Fee is $25.00 for
first 5 slides, $7.50 for each additional slide.
Deadline for receipt of slides is January 15, 2003.
Chosen artists will participate in a group exhibition
at the Camera Club of New Yorks Lowenhertz Gallery.
Send self addr...
Tampa Museum of Art: Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa
Included are
the works of seven African artists: Skunder Boghossian,
Sokari Douglas Camp, Rashid Diab, Amir Nour, Moyo
Ogundipe, Moyo Okediji, and Outtara—and seven African
American artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, John B...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Art in Bloom: A Weekend of Flowers
This year's arrangements are being created by area garden clubs. Free docent-led tours will be
available to give visitors a better understand of the artworks and their relationship to each flower
arrangement. The honorary...
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Bridging the Border: Shared Themes in Mexican and U.S. Art 1900 – 1950
Four themes: The City, Rural Traditions, Responses to European Modernism, and Protest and Persuasion break the show into sections that highlight areas of exchange during the first fifty years of the 20th century. Each category compares works by ...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery
A number of outstanding individual works complete the selection,
including well-known examples by early masters like John Singleton
Copley and Joshua Johnson and striking modernist compositions by Maurice
Prendergast, Thomas Hart Benton and Aar...
Pablo's Birthday: Multiple Partners: Curated and Organized by Carla Gannis
"Women can't add," he said jokingly.
When I asked him what he meant, he said,
"For them, one and one and one and one don't make four."
"What do they make?" I said, expecting five or three.
"Just one and one and one and one," h...
Frye Art Museum: Heartland: The Paintings of Bo Bartlett
Bartlett’s powerful and engaging paintings fall well within the tradition of 20th-century American realism. Like American masters such as Thomas Eakins, Thomas Hart Benton and Andrew Wyeth, Bartlett has looked at the people and land around him and in...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Color, Myth, and Music:Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism
Among his many accomplishments, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, along with fellow American
painter Morgan Russell, fathered the Synchromism movement. Convinced that color and
sound were equivalent phenomena and that one could o...
Frye Art Museum: Hudson River Paintings from the Hersen Collection
The richly painted landscapes reflect a time when the
American landscape was relatively unmarred by
development. At first glance, the paintings seem simply to
represent beauty, repose, and rest. At a deeper level,
however, the paintings ev...
Crafts Council Gallery: On Paper - New Paper Art
On Paper will showcase the work of forty international artists diverse in their practice but
united by their enthusiasm for paper as a material. Divided into four sections, the exhibition will exemplify how both unexpected and beautiful this oft...
Cube at Beco: Extra/ordinary: Fiber Artists Rethinking Art and Everyday Life
Since the Industrial Revolution began blurring the lines between industry and handicraft, as well as the upper- and lower-classes, artists have subsequently taken great pleasure in using such developments to similarly dissolve the centuries-old ba...
Portland Museum of Art: Leonard Baskin: Monumental Woodcuts
Monumental woodcuts--fashioned from multiple blocks joined together--were made as early as the Renaissance by artists such as Jacopo de Barbari, Hans Schufelein, and Albrecht Durer. The subjects were usually grand views, narrative compositions, or...
Dayton Art Institute: Scenes of American Life: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Rockwell Kents Snow Fields
(1909), the earliest work in the exhibition, portrays women, children and dogs playing on a sunny winter
day and captures the new spirit of the time. Likewise, paintings by William Glackens, Agnes Tait and Paul
Cad...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Picturing the Banjo
"For more than two centuries, the banjo has played an integral role in
American history and culture and has inspired an eclectic array of
artists," said Sarah Cash, the Corcoran's Bechhoefer Curator of American
Art. "A highlight of the Corcoran...
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: John A. and Margaret Hill Collection of American Western Art AND Silver Blossoms, Turquoise Mountains: Southwest Indian Jewelry
As a connoisseur of American art, John Hill collected what he believed in, which was the myth of the American West. It is a myth that has shaped this nation more than any other. From it, comes our sense of magisterial landscapes dwarfing human a...
Portland Museum of Art: Murray Hantman: From Image to Abstraction
Like many of his contemporaries, Hantman’s work was shaped by the times in which he lived—by the exhilarating sense of the potential of art in the modern era coupled with the harsher realities of American life during the Great Depression and World...
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery: USA Clay: Recently Acquired Ceramics
We are delighted to showcase the diverse ways clay has been used by artists over the last
50 years, said Elizabeth Broun, the museum's Margaret and Terry Stent Director. 'USA
Clay' also provides us with a wonderful opportunity to show ...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Marsden Hartley: First Retrospective in over 20 Years
Widely acknowledged as the greatest of the early American modernists, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) belonged to a circle of artists promoted by photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz that included Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, Arthur Dove, ...
Columbus Museum of Art: Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland
The exhibition and its national tour are sponsored by Philip Morris Companies
Inc.
Illusions of Eden is one component of The Heartland Project, a series of three
traveling museum exhibitions and an interactive website that will evaluate t...
National Museum of Chinese Revolution History: Dong Kingman: Watercolor Master
In addition to commemorating Kingman’s extraordinary career, Kingman’s second major exhibit in China coincides with and commemorates 30 years since relations between United States and China resumed. His prior exhibition in China in 1981 was the f...
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